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(2025). <i>Scholar-Designed Course: Supporting Linguistically Diverse Students with Language-Based Learning Disabilities.<\/i> National Center for Leadership in Intensive Intervention; U.S. Department of Education, OSEP."},{"publication":"Wang, J. J., & Wriston, B. (2024). Focusing on the intersection of race, disability, and equity. <i>The Education Trust.<\/i>"},{"publication":"Wang, J. J., Redford, L., & Ratliff, K. A. (2021). Do special education recommendations differ for Asian American and White American students?. <i>Social Psychology of Education, 24(4), 1065\u20131083.<\/i>"},{"publication":"Johnson, L., & Wang, J. J. (2022). <i>Research to practice brief: Comorbid language-based learning disabilities.<\/i> Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs."},{"publication":"Lariviere, D. O., Agrawal, V., & Wang, J. J. 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